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A tty (teletypewriter) is a Unix command that prints to standard output the name of the terminal connected to standard input. It is typically called a terminal. the first local terminal is referred to as tty1 and resides in /dev/tty1

I am on Ubuntu 15.4 with plain old boring Unity. I am having the exact same problem as this user describes, where entering my password will cause the screen to go black before reloading back at the ...

So, okay, I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 and this just came out yesterday when the launcher disappeared. I cant right click on screen 'cause nothing happens, I can open TTY with ctrl+alt F1, F2 and so ...

I had used Ubuntu 14.04 x64 bit for months until one day the old motherboard of my old computer irreversibly crashed. I had to replace the motherboard which required to replace the processor as well. ...

Running Ubuntu 14.04 on a 2008 MBP (3,1). Dual booting with rEFInd.
Pressing CTRL+ALT+F# does nothing at the greeter or once logged in.
I have nomodeset in grub, if I remove it I can't get ubuntu to ...

I've read through about 20+ threads where others had the same thing happen, however NONE of the solutions I found worked for me.
Some were not even possible to try or didn't apply. I'm really stuck ...

I want to set the RUN to yes in the /etc/default/saned, as mentioned in this answer.
Here is a snippet of the file :
# Defaults for the saned initscript, from sane-utils
# Set to yes to start saned
...

I would like to use Necromancer's Dos Navigator on Ubuntu/KDE plasma 5 15.04 vivid, 3.19.8.
NDN: http://ndn.muxe.com/
I have tried at least the following terminal emulators: konsole terminator tilda ...

On a default Ubuntu (15.04) installation, We have 7 TTYs that we can switch with Ctrl+Alt+F [1-7], where TTY1-6 are terminals and TTY7 is the graphical X session.
I would like to have more than one ...

I installed ubuntu 14 desktop version with VMWare Fusion on my mac, as I need to execute some linux binaries on mac. The issue is that ubuntu itself occupies almost 1G bytes of memory with the GUI. I ...

Since I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop, I have many problems on it (that I don't have on Debian 8)
Indeed, when I switch to TTY with CTRL + ALT + F(1-6), I get a black screen, same problem when ...

I'm in the process of creating a login wrapper for /bin/login so that when you boot Linux you get a TUI Login instead of the bland login on the tty console. This will be just a bash script for this ...

I have next problem. I had PC with two hard drives. First one (sda) was with WinXP, second one (sdb) - with Ubuntu 12.04. Then I took second hard disk and installed it in another PC (it has the same ...

I am trying to change the resolution of the TTYs (the ones reachable with Ctrl+Shift+Fn) on Ubuntu 15.03. I have consulted these sources:
ChangeTTYResolution
Higher resolution when switching to tty ...

I am using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS booting directly to tty1. The machine is an Intel NUC with a Core i5 + iGPU, display connected through Display Port. As far as I can tell, it does not have any graphical ...

I have a Lenovo E540 laptop running Ubuntu 14.04 with Kubuntu-Desktop installed. A second monitor is almost always plugged into the HDMI slot and I can set up the resolution just fine to be 1360x768 ...

Ever since I upgraded my minimal installation to 15.04, the console has been using a VGA standard font instead of the normal font. After entering sudo dpkg-configure console-setup and selecting "Let ...

I attempted to restart my Lenovo T400, and my laptop just sat there on the desktop, not responding. so after a hard restart, there was this error that there was some sort of error with my "temporary ...

I've always been curious about an idiosyncrasy of Xorg that seems to happen on every machine I've tried it on; whenever I start a new X instance on a TTY using startx manually (that is, without the ...

Whenever I try to log in to any account my 14.04 PC, the log-in screen returns to the log-in screen as soon as I log in. It flashes for a second, like it's going to go to the desktop, but then it just ...

If I drop to a hard shell (TTY1) I know I can trigger stuff by starting DISPLAY=:0 ... and switch back to see it running. How would I trigger a shell window this way?
Specifically what goes where the ...

As the title says, I have an application that I need to run in a TTY. I also need to take a screenshot of it while it's running. How can I take a screenshot of an application running in a TTY without ...

My Ubuntu wont log in. If I type a correct password it just goes to a blank unity wallpaper and back to the log in screen. Funny It's being buggy when I decide to switch back to windows after a month ...

After some upgrades (I believe it was for Ubuntu 12.04, wasn't me that ran the upgrade), the boot process became stuck on the splash screen (purple, dots moving along). Presuming the desktop manager ...

I'm desperately trying to connect a 3G dongle to Ubuntu 12.04. Unfortunately every time I try to connect (using wvdial) I'm met with the message Cannot open /dev/ttyUSB0: No such file or directory I ...

I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 in Virtual Box. I want to use 1600x900 resolution in TTY terminals.
I understood that changing the value of GRUB_GFXMODE to the required resolution in /etc/default/grub ...

Actually i want to do reconnect in USB-Modem - i.e Once pdp session is established with modem using sequence of AT commands (like AT+CGATT,ATDT etc), I am trying to reestablish the connection after ...

I want to setup virtual serial port emulator in Linux. I want the ports to be permanent, so that I can use them every time I restart. I tried using socat for that purpose as in this way,
socat -d -d ...

The default configuration for vim seems to be different for tty7. When I open a terminal in the default gui on tty7 and start vim I can hold shift and press the left or right arrows to move the cursor ...